Accessing Data

All visitors to the ASSDA Data Catalogue can browse and search the catalogue, view study and variable documentation (including frequencies) and download related material (questionnaires, codebooks, etc).
Registered users can also analyse and visualise most data online and users who have completed the relevant undertaking form(s) can download entire studies or subsets of variables in a range of formats:

Step 1

Register online with ASSDA

Registration is free and confidential. Once the short form is completed an email
will be sent with your username and password. Your login will allow you to analyse unrestricted datasets
online (perform crosstabulations and regressions, create graphs and charts).

Step 2

Please note that you will need to provide an email address based at
the institution you are applying from - commercial email addresses
(eg. Gmail, Yahoo, Bigpond, etc.) will not be approved for downloads or for access to restricted data. To update your email address in your
online registration go to Edit Details.

Either

Apply for download access to unrestricted data

To download unrestricted data (including subsets of variables) for offline data analysis
(for example in SPSS, Stata or SAS formats) you will need to complete the general undertaking form:

If you are not affiliated with an ACSPRI institution a fee of $1,000 per dataset downloaded applies.

This form includes a request for information about your intended use of the data. In general, access
to download data will only be approved for staff members of research organisations, students
conducting higher degrees by research and other authorised research purposes.

Students are required to provide additional information, inlcuding contact details of their supervisor in order
to be approved for download access (online analysis of unrestricted data is available to all registered users).

ASSDA will then send this form to the depositor for approval. Applicants should therefore allow for a time delay whilst their application is being processed. When your access has been authorised, ASSDA will contact you and
may also advise you to complete a special undertaking form.

You are entitled to download any ASSDA study without charge. To gain access to all unrestricted studies, complete the
ACSPRI General Undertaking Form. To gain access to a restricted study, complete the Application to Access Restricted Data Form.

No, my organisation is not a member

You are required to apply for each dataset individually and will need to complete the General Undertaking Form, and pay a $1000 (Aus) per dataset
administrative fee. For information on joining ACSPRI see Becoming a Member.

No, my organisation is not a member,but I come from an overseas organisation